"To the authority I was rubbish, just a piece of shit, and I vowed to
prove to them that everything has value. My story is a simple story. Scrap
is my study."
Johannes ´Outa Lappies´ Schoeman

Talking Rubbish brings together a selection of artists
from the Western Cape, South Africa.
In interplay with photographs by Knut Egil Wang, the exhibition presents a
vibrant culture in recycling material, and focuses on people’s strong
will of looking for possibilities rather than despair. Talking Rubbish shows
how the seemingly useless can be transformed into storytellers and objects
with a universal value, and how narrow the boundary between the useless and
valuable may be.